Beta: tvOS & iOS Intro and Credits detection

Beta Community Apple Beta
#23

I have been playing around with this all evening. So far so good overall for the few shows I have tested.

I have a question: Will there at some point be any option to delete just individual segments vs all of them for a show? I have noticed one show that doesn't have an intro, just the network logo and beginning show title that is only on screen for a few seconds. Not something I would desire to skip. Or maybe in the scanner you could add a qualifier that if what it detects is X seconds long it won't detect it? Like if it is only less than 15 seconds or something like that. Just a thought.

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#24

Stay tuned.

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#25

any plans in adding into skipping for virtual channels?

#26

It’s already part of it.

#27

Can movies be added to this? It would be awesome to skip the credits on movies in virtual channels

#28

We don't have any plans to expand this to movies at this time.

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Skip Credits Automatically
#29

I was just watching a series tonight (Wolf King) and noticed that if it has really long credits and the button comes up to go to the next episode it doesn't mark the episode I was watching as watched. It is working correctly to come up as the credits start though.

This is one of those shows that has a long end credit sequence.

#30

Awesome work again!
Smashing these updates atm.
Will try it out over the weekend.

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#31

Man, you guys are cookin'! :fire:

I have Skip Intro set to auto. It worked fine playing from the library, but in a Virtual Channel, I only was offered the skip intro button, it wasn't automatic.

#32

You’ll have to set it on your virtual channel. Virtual Channels don’t inherit the global setting.

#33

Thanks. I figured I missed a setting somewhere.

#34

Only scanned the Simpsons and Futurama for a quick test so far.

Worked really well on Futurama.

The Simpsons seems hit and miss, though would probably be a tough one as even mid season it can change from a short intro to a long intro - probably depending on the run time of the episode.

So far though, very comparable to the detection of Plex and a very nice addition.

Will try a couple more shows tonight.

Side note/suggestion: with auto skip (intro/commercial) could there be any option or a change in how ‘auto’ works to have a count down or a sliding timer like infuse/Plex to enable you to ‘opt-out’ of the skip?
This could be useful if say your kids wanted to watch an intro for the theme song or in the case of commercials - the commercial wasn’t yet verified and it was a false reading?

Could possibly have:

  • Auto
  • Auto w/ Button/Timer
  • Button
  • Manual

In any case, great addition and very pleased it’s been added.

Edit: I suppose the per show setting makes my suggestion redundant. If it’s a show you may want to watch the intro(kids), leave it as a button. If it’s a show you’re not wanting to watch the intro, leave it as auto.

#35

Having some issues with one of my kids shows.

Tried to detect segments and never got any segments. So tried to delete all segments and now I just get an error in the logs that the files size is less than 4 bytes.

#36

Very excited about this. This was the last feature keeping me on Plex occasionally. Channels team: y’all rock :metal:

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#37

This has been fixed:

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#38

We've found that sometimes the detection will detect recurring segments that aren't actually Intros or Credits. You can now categorize them with the new Fix Detections tab. Just make the changes you need and hit Save.

Once you save, the show will immediately be reprocessed.

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#39

Let us know the results of anything guys correct. We’d love to hear if this is helping!

#40

I am seeing an issue with Intro skip and credit skip not always working consistently on two shows that I am watching. One is Black Sails and one is Masters Of The Air. When looking at the view segments section, I see that there are images that look like they are the intro and images that look like they are the credits but sometimes the skip button will pop up and sometimes it doesn't. So far I haven't noticed the Next Episode button pop up at any time on Black Sails. The Next Episode button does pop up at the very end of the episode like it used to.

EDIT: So far, it seems to just be happening now with the Black Sails series for end credits only. Skip Intro does seem to be working on the last 3 episodes I tested. Masters Of The Air seems to be working fine on both Intro Skip and Credits detection so far on 4 episodes.

#41

Can't get the intro/credits detector to see anything on TV show Tulsa King. Logs just say nothing to detect. There is an intro in the show though.

#42

Haven't been able to get detection to work on my server, running Raspbian. Logs show same error each time: "[ERR] Could not write MFCC for file-____: ffmpeg failed: exit status 1"